Important Events Every Day!!

ON MARCH 6th
1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1899 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark.
1957 - United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana.
1964 - Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
1967 - Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1975 - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1992 - The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.

TODAY GHANA CELEBRATES ITS INDEPENDENCE DAY
AND ITS FOUNDATION DAY IN NORFOLK ISLANDS

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1862 - American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
1936 - World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1950 - Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1971 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman calls for Bangladesh's independence in a speech given at the Ramna Race Course
1984 - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
1986 - Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1989 - Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.

TODAY IS TEACHERS DAY IN ALBANIA

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1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1844 - King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
1911 - International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1942 - World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1957 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1978 - The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1979 - Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
1985 - A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
2004 - A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.

TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY AND MOTHERS DAY IN ROMANIA, BULGARIA AND ALBANIA.

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ON THIS DAY MARCH 9TH

1500 - The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
1908 - Inter Milan is founded.
1933 - Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to the Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.
1957 - A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
1959 - The Barbie doll makes it's debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
1990 - Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
1991 - Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Milošević in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are in the streets.
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.


ZIUL RAHMAN, YURI GAGARIN, ZAKIR HUSSAIN, SHASHI THAROOR, PARTHIV PATEL AND DARSHEEL SAFARY were BORN ON THIS DAY.

TODAY IS BARON BLISS DAY IN BELIZE

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241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
1804 - Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1922 - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
1948 - The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League.
1959 - Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
1977 - Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
2006 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

Osama bin Laden, Sepp Blatter, Chuck Norris, Sharon Stone, Timbaland, Samuel Eto and Carrie Underwood were born on this day.

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1702 - The Daily Courant, the UK's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1917 - World War I: Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
1945 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the Soviet Union's leader.
1990 - Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1990 - Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1970.
1999 - Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2004 - Madrid Train Bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid (Spain) kill 191 people.
2006 - Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile.

Vijay Hazare, Rupert Murdoch, Didier Drogba wer Born on this day.
TODAY IS INDEPENDENCE DAY IN LITHUANIA.
AND
YOUTH DAY IN ZAMBIA.

1622 - Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, is canonized a saint by the Catholic Church.
1881 - Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
1918 - Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint-Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Dandi March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
1947 - The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1966 - Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
1968 - Mauritius achieves independence.
1992 - Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 - Several bombs explode in Mumbai, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
1993 - North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
1994 - The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
1999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.

Gustav Kirchoff, Mustafa Ataturk, Steve Harris, Shreya Ghosal and Atif Aslam were born on this day.

Today is INDEPENDENCE DAY in MAURITIUS.

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1639 - Harvard College is named for clergyman John Harvard.
1781 - William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1921 - Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China
1930 - The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
1989 - A geomagnetic storm causes the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. Six million people were left without power for nine hours.
1991 - The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
1997 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
1997 - The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.

1889 - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"
1980 - In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1994 - Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 - Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran.
2005 - Cedar Revolution, where hundreds of thousands of Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Albert einstein, Aamir Khan, Nicolas Anelka and Michael Caine were born on this day

The Sikh faith celebrates Nanakshahih New Year today.
Today is Estonian Language day and heroes day in the St Vincent and the Grenadines.

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44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.
1848 - A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1877 - The first Test cricket match begins between England and Australia.
1906 - Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.

Today is Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan's Birthday.
Today is International Day Against Police Brutality and A National Holiday in Hungary.

1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1872 - The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1-0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
1924 - In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
1926 - Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1935 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1963 - Mount Agung erupts on Bali, as 11,000 die.
1976 - British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
2003 - The largest coordinated worldwide vigil takes place, as part of the global protests against Iraq war.
2005 - Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council.

Jerry Lewis and Theo Walcott were born on this day.

1845 - The rubber band is patented.
1948 - Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the NATO Agreement.
1950 - University of California, Berkeley researchers announce the creation of element 98, which they name "Californium".
1959 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1960 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1992 - A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2003 - British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for the war with Iraq.
2004 - Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35 Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
2008 - New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor.

Joseph Baptista, Sheikh Mujibur rehman, Mia Hamm were born on this day.

St. patrick's Day

1979 - Sharman Joshi, bollywood actor was born

March 28

Monday 28, 2005:

The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1965.

Thursday 28, 2002:

The exhibit "The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art" opens at the National Gallery of Australia.

Monday 28, 1994:

In South Africa, Zulus and African National Congress supporters battle in central Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.

Wednesday 28, 1990:

President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

Wednesday 28, 1979:

In Pennsylvania, a pump in the reactor cooling system fails at Three Mile Island, resulting in the evaporation of some contaminated water causing a nuclear meltdown.

Tuesday 28, 1978:

US Supreme Court hands down 5-3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.

Saturday 28, 1964:

The first pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, is established.

Friday 28, 1947:

The last episode of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio.

Thursday 28, 1946:

Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.

Saturday 28, 1942:

World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.

Friday 28, 1941:

In the Mediterranean Sea, British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham leads the Royal Navy in the destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers.

Tuesday 28, 1939:

Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid

Friday 28, 1930:

Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.

Sunday 28, 1920:

Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford marry.

Friday 28, 1913:

Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Monday 28, 1910:

Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.

Friday 28, 1862:

In New Mexico, Union forces succeed in stopping the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory. The battle began on March 26.

Wednesday 28, 1860:

First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.

Tuesday 28, 1854:

Crimean War: United Kingdom and France declare war on Russia.

Friday 28, 1834:

The United States Senate censures President Andrew Jackson for his actions in defunding the Second Bank of the United States.

Tuesday 28, 1809:

Battle of Medelin

Sunday 28, 1802:

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.

Saturday 28, 1795:

Partitions of Poland: The Duchy of Courland, a northern fief of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ceases to exist and becomes part of Imperial Russia.

Friday 28, 1794:

Allies under the prince of Coburg defeated French forces at Le Cateau.

Thursday 28, 1776:

Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.

Tuesday 28, 845:

Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.

Saturday 28, 364:

Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor.

Thursday 28, 193:

Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sells the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.